The Guns of Empire
core novel 2016 The Shadow Campaigns
Record
| First published | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.28 (6,879 ratings, collected 2026-08-25) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780451477323 |
Synopsis
The Guns of Empire follows Janus bet Vhalnich as he leads Vordan's forces into what becomes his most demanding campaign yet, confronting the armies of Murnsk on hostile ground where extreme and seemingly unnatural weather compounds the difficulty of the fighting. As the campaign unfolds, Marcus and Winter continue in their respective commands, contending with the strain of prolonged warfare far from home even as political currents in Vordan continue to shift in their absence. An attempt to poison Janus leaves him gravely ill at a critical point in the campaign, throwing the army's plans and command structure into uncertainty. The stakes of the conflict grow sharply when older, darker forces tied to the setting's supernatural threats begin to stir in response to the deepening war, widening the scope of what Vordan's soldiers are fighting to contain.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Shadow Campaigns
- Series: The Shadow Campaigns core; position 4 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Django Wexler
Notes
- From the series record (The Shadow Campaigns): Core = the 5 main-sequence novels (2013-2017), a flintlock/gunpowder fantasy military series. Expanded = two e-novellas set in the same continuity, The Penitent Damned (2013) and The Shadow of Elysium (2015), not catalogued.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Shadow Campaigns: position 4 of 5: previous The Price of Valour (2015) · next The Infernal Battalion (2017)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Django Wexler
- Reader-rating platform series page: The Shadow Campaigns
- https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheShadowCampaigns
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